Observations on Divers Passages of Scripture. Placing Many of Them in a Light Altogether New ... and More Amply Illustrating the Rest Than Has Been Yet Done, by Means of Circumstances Incidentally Mentioned in Books of Voyages and Travels Into the East: In Two Volumes. ...J. Johnson, 1797 |
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... Jewish Judges that Amos complains of : filver made them pervert the judgment of the righteous ; nay , fo mean a piece of finery as a pair of wooden fandals for their wives would make them condemn the innocent poor , who could not afford ...
... Jewish Judges that Amos complains of : filver made them pervert the judgment of the righteous ; nay , fo mean a piece of finery as a pair of wooden fandals for their wives would make them condemn the innocent poor , who could not afford ...
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... fuc- ceffion , I prefume is meant a present made to a great man to obtain his favour , in cafe of difpute , about fucceeding to an inheritance , or part of it , The T The Jewish people were in a low ftate in in the Holy - Land . 25 4 ...
... fuc- ceffion , I prefume is meant a present made to a great man to obtain his favour , in cafe of difpute , about fucceeding to an inheritance , or part of it , The T The Jewish people were in a low ftate in in the Holy - Land . 25 4 ...
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... Jewish Governor have accepted one that was blind , and confequently half - ftarved ? or pining with lameness or fickness ? OBSERVATION XI . The common prefent that is now made to the Great in these countries is an horfe ; there is ...
... Jewish Governor have accepted one that was blind , and confequently half - ftarved ? or pining with lameness or fickness ? OBSERVATION XI . The common prefent that is now made to the Great in these countries is an horfe ; there is ...
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... Jewish prophet to be his fuperior . If it is applicable to any facred story , it feems to me to be that of Efau's coming to vifit his brother , on which occafion Jacob pre- fented him with a confiderable number of cat- tle , telling him ...
... Jewish prophet to be his fuperior . If it is applicable to any facred story , it feems to me to be that of Efau's coming to vifit his brother , on which occafion Jacob pre- fented him with a confiderable number of cat- tle , telling him ...
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... Jewish Church and Nation , under the Af- monæan Princes , when feveral tribes of the Gentile world , fubmitted to be circumcifed , and were incorporated with the Jews . Of thefe the Idumæans were the most celebrated ; but there were ...
... Jewish Church and Nation , under the Af- monæan Princes , when feveral tribes of the Gentile world , fubmitted to be circumcifed , and were incorporated with the Jews . Of thefe the Idumæans were the most celebrated ; but there were ...
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